It may be unexpected that someone closer to 40 than to 30 agrees with the Student Life editor that “the sex issue” is an important tradition, but I applaud the sex positivity throughout last week’s paper. However, I’m afraid I felt it missed several valuable opportunities.

Sex workers’ opinions and experiences are not only being shared widely on large platforms, but are actually being heard and understood by wide audiences, regardless of gender.

What pops up when you search for www.wustl.xxx on the internet? Nothing—and it will stay that way. In response to the upcoming launch of internet “.xxx” domains, the University has preemptively blocked its trademarked names from being scooped up by pornography companies. According to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the new .

Alex Greenberg’s recently printed thoughts on porn in the 21st century got me thinking. I agree with one of his points wholeheartedly. He argues that, these days, “with a laptop and an Ethernet cable, any kid can lock himself (or herself) in the bathroom for days, watching naked people with exaggeratedly large sexual features do it with each other,” essentially finding libraries of pornography with little to no effort.

Hentai, in Japanese, is a word generally indicating perversion. Literally, it means “abnormal attitude,” or in slang, “weirdo.”

As anybody who reads industry publications can tell you, it is not a good time to be in the adult entertainment business.